“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
Art
“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
PoetryAll Quotes by John Keats
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
Failure“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
Nature“There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.”
Music“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Beauty“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.”
Beauty“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
Death“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”
Poetry“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”
Nature“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Intelligence“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
Imagination“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”
Love“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
Love“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
Experience“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
Poetry“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
Beauty“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”
Wisdom“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
Imagination“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”
Valentinesday“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
Poetry